Pre-Columbian Population of the North and the South Americas was 100 Million
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2024
- 🔴 Comparative table of estimates of the pre-Columbian population (for 1492)
USA and Canada - 9.8 - 12.25 million;
Mexico - 30 - 37.5 million;
Mesoamerica - 10.8 - 13.5 million;
Caribbean - 0.44 - 0.55 million;
Andes - 30 - 37.5 million;
Patagonia and Amazonia - 9 - 11.25 million;
Total - 90.04 - 112.55 million;
Source: Henry F. Dobyns, «Estimating aboriginal population: an appraisal of techniques with a new hemispheric estimate », in Current Anthropology, 7, n°4, October 1966, p.395-449.
🔴 From Siberia to Americas migrated ancestors of aboriginal Americans - in approx. 13,000 BC. They were one tribe or very related tribes. probably they spoke in 1 shared language. This one language could then form: 22 Language families of North America, 51 Language families of South America, 15 Language isolates of Northern America and 28 Language isolates of South and Central America.
🔴 In 2018 was discovered a megalopolis in Guatemala, where 10-15 million people lived. This agglomeration existed from approx. 550 BC to 1500 - 1550 AD.
So, Guatemala is a country that has proven that American Pre-Columbian civilizations were very large and powerful with an incredibly large population until 1500 BC, when Europeans began to move there and before 90% of their population was infected with Eurasian viruses and caused the Greatest Pandemic in the History of mankind.
Above mentioned megalopolis was like Moscow almost. With its pyramids, roads, well-built houses. And this country - Guatemala is only 108,889 square kilometers. About a size of Azerbaijan.... and that nearly 15-million-strong megalopolis covered only a small part of this country, about a third of the maximum.
Now imagine South America alone is slightly larger than Russia. North America is much bigger than Russia.. How great civilizations and cultures has disappeared... How many people lived before the Europeans moved there on both continents and how many more secrets cover Amazon, which is almost unexplored. First European travelers in South America describe so many big cities that, as they write, were as big as London in that days and richer than Paris.
🔴 The Spanish, Portuguese and English managed to colonize both Americas because when Europeans began to migrate to the Americas in 1492, they inadvertently introduced Eurasian virus strains such as smallpox, measles, rubella and mumps to these continents. To which the people there had no immunity due to the fact that they had been removed from contact with Eurasians for more than 10 thousand years. Because of this, the greatest pandemic in human history occurred and 9 out of 10 aboriginal Americans died. Women, children, men, young, old. disease had no mercy on anyone. Those who survived developed immunity and now these diseases are no longer fatal for them. After this disaster, new continents were easily conquered by Europeans.
The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a number of diseases that had a devastating impact on the indigenous populations. These diseases, often referred to as "Old World" diseases, were introduced to the Americas by Europeans and their African slaves. The lack of immunity among the indigenous populations resulted in widespread epidemics and significant population decline. Some of the diseases that had a particularly profound impact include:
1. Smallpox: Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases introduced to the Americas. It caused severe illness and high mortality rates among indigenous populations. The disease spread rapidly and led to massive population loss.
2. Measles: Measles is another highly contagious disease that had a significant impact on indigenous communities. It caused widespread outbreaks and resulted in high mortality, particularly among children.
3. Influenza: Different strains of influenza, including both seasonal and pandemic forms, had a detrimental effect on indigenous populations. The introduction of new influenza strains to which they had no immunity caused severe illness and mortality.
4. Typhus: Typhus, a bacterial disease transmitted by lice or fleas, also affected indigenous populations. It caused high fever, severe headaches, and rashes, leading to increased mortality.
5. Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection primarily affecting the lungs, was another disease that took a toll on indigenous communities. It spread quickly and caused significant illness and death.
6. Cholera: Cholera, a waterborne disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, had outbreaks in various regions of the Americas, causing severe dehydration and death.
These diseases, along with others such as diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough), had a devastating impact on the indigenous populations of the Americas. The lack of immunity and the rapid spread of these diseases in communities with limited access to medical resources resulted in significant population decline and the disruption of indigenous societies.
🔴 "It is not surprising, that there can be people in Americas 130,000 years ago, because part of the argument about the peopling of Americas has to do with a place that we now call the Bering straits - Between Alaska and Siberia, which during the ice age were at times a land bridge. They exposed because of lowered sea levels. But migrants, who crossed that land bridge from Siberia on many occasions over periods of tens of thousands of years, would find themselves confronted then by the North American ice cap, which oddly wasn't at the tip of Alaska, but begun further in. So, there was living space in a bit of Alaska, but you could not get through the ice mountains. These literally ice mountains - 2 miles deep, covering the whole of North America and preventing access to the unglaciated parts of America. The thing is that what happened for about 11,400 BC, there had been a period of global warming, the ice sheets begun to melt, and corridor opened up between what is called the Cordilleran ice sheet and the Laurentide ice sheet, the two major ice keeps in north America and it is thought that the migration came through that corridor. Well the thing is, that exactly the same thing happened between 140 thousand years ago and 120 thousand years ago. There was episode of global warming, an ice-free corridor opened up and the same opportunity to enter the Americas was there at that period, than it was at the later period.
Large cities flourished in the Amazons. enormous cities. There was Spanish explorer Francisco Orianna, who went down the Amazon river system in 1541 to 1542. He was a first European, who to cross the entire length of South America from West to East along the Amazon. He reported seeing incredible cities, advanced arts and crafts, millions of people, thriving culture and hundred years later, when other Europeans got into the amazon, they could not find these cities. So, they thought, that Francisco Orianna made this all up. Then in the begining of the 21st century, as the clearances of the Amazon have proceeded, we have begun to see the traces of those cities. What happened was that the Spaniards brought smallpox into the Amazon, that devastated the local population because there was no immunity to it. there was massive die-off. the cities were deserted within a 50 years, they were completely overgrown by the jungle. That is why they were not seen by the European explorers who came in a hundred years later. but now the jungles have been cleared, those cities are are emerging. and we can say, that a city like London, which had a population of roughly 50,000 in the 16th century, there were cities of that size all over the Amazon. Huge numbers of them. and a possible total population of the Amazon exceeded 20 million people. This is the latest evidence from the Amazon.
Then you ask yourself, how did they do that? How did they feed 20 million people in the Amazon. because it's a fact, rainforest soils are poor. It's one of the reasons why soya bean farms are really stupid idea, because once you clear the rainforest, the land is largely unfertile - you can't grow stuff on it for very long. So, how did they feed all these people? The answer is, they invented a soil - Terra Preta. Archaeologists refer to this as Amazonian dark earth or Amazonian black earth. It is a man-made soil. It's thousands of years old. It's full of microbes, that are not found in the joining soil. It's based around biochar, and you can take a handful of 8 thousand year old Terra Preta and you can add it to barren soil and that soil will instantly become fertile. It's highly thought after in the Amazon and it explains how they fed these people. There was science in the Amazon. It is still not understood by the soil experts how could they do this kind of soil. There was a culture in the Amazon, that was capable of manipulating the environment in such a way, that it could support large populations with the invention of Terra Preta.
Secondly, New evidence previously not recognized - The Amazon is basically a garden. The Amazon is a man-made rainforest. there are certain trees, like Brazil nut tree, or the ice cream bean tree, which are food crops. Which are very valuable, and they dominate the tree regime in the Amazon. There was what referred to as hyper dominant species. In other words, people living in the Amazon over thousands of years, selected certain trees, which they then cultivated and grew, so the whole thing is not simply a wild pristine rainforest. it is a very ancient man-made environment, as well as evidence of large cities, large populations, and this mysterious dark earth. Also there are huge Geometrical structures - Henges. What a henge is, is a ditch, which has been dug deep then an embankment has been pushed up outside the ditch. When people first saw these structures the wondered if they'd been built for defense, but then it became obvious they hadn't been built for defense. Henge can be circular, square or they often in Europe contains megalithic stone circles, but the henge itself is entirely an earthwork. What we find in the Amazon, are thousands of henges and more are now beginning to emerge from the cleared areas of the jungle and others are identified by LIDAR (Light Imaging and Detective Radar)."
Full video: Joe Rogan Experience #1284 - Graham Hancock
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Can you do a video about Zagrosian Neolithic Farmers i heard they are very close to Caucasian Hunter Gatherers
Caucasus hunter-gatherers and Iranian neolithic farmers were the same people.
@@christian78478 Zagrosians are also so Close related to Anatolian Neolithic Farmers
@@Eyyubid_Kurdish Yes, exactly. And Anatolian Neolithic Farmers are also Early European Farmers (EEF).
@@christian78478 will you do video about Zagrosians one day in the future ?
@@Eyyubid_Kurdish Yes, I'm going to do this.